Death Impends

Fixed it in my post

42 Belinda Carlisle – Heaven Is A Place on Earth 39 Enya – Orinoco Flow 38 The Bangles – Eternal Flame 38 Madonna — Like a prayer 36 Black Box – Ride On Time 31 Soul II Soul ft. Caron Wheeler – Back To Life (However Do You Want Me) 29 Kylie Minogue – Hand On Your Heart 28 Lisa Stansfield – All Around The World 27 Simple Minds – Belfast Child (Ballad Of The Streets EP) 26 S-Express – Theme from S-Express 26 Tiffany – I Think We´re Alone Now 25 Phil Collins — A Groovy Kind Of Love 24 Kylie Minogue – I Should Be So Lucky 24 Pet Shop Boys – Heart +2 23 Yazz & the Plastic Population – The Only Way Is Up 19 Marc Almond/Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold of my Heart +2 18 U2 – Desire 18 Robin Beck – First Time 18 Aswad – Don´t Turn Around 14 Jason Donovan – Sealed With A Kiss 14 Jason Donovan - Too Many Broken Hearts 7 Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan – Especially For You  6 New Kids on the Block – You´ve Got It (The Right Stuff) -6

40 Belinda Carlisle – Heaven Is A Place on Earth +2 38 Madonna — Like A Prayer 38 Enya – Orinoco Flow 33 The Bangles – Eternal Flame 32 Black Box – Ride On Time 31 Kylie Minogue – Hand On Your Heart 31 Soul II Soul ft. Caron Wheeler – Back To Life (However Do You Want Me) 30 Lisa Stansfield – All Around The World 25 Simple Minds – Belfast Child (Ballad Of The Streets EP) 24 Kylie Minogue – I Should Be So Lucky 24 Tiffany – I Think We´re Alone Now 24 S-Express – Theme from S-Express 22 Marc Almond and Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart +2 21 Aswad – Don´t Turn Around 21 Phil Collins – A Groovy Kind Of Love 20 Jason Donovan – Too Many Broken Hearts 20 Jason Donovan – Sealed With A Kiss 19 Yazz & the Plastic Population – The Only Way Is Up 18 Robin Beck – First Time 16 U2 – Desire 16 Pet Shop Boys – Heart 16 New Kids on the Block – You´ve Got It (The Right Stuff) 15 Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan – Especially For You 12 Wet Wet Wet – With A Little Help From My Friends / Billy Bragg – She´s Leaving Home 9 Glenn Medeiros - Nothing's Gonna Change My Love for you 9 Sonia – You´ll Never Stop Me From Loving You 0 Whitney Houston – One Moment In Time -6

I always go through Spotify for the #1s game for the songs I wasn't already familiar with. Even for the songs I don't exactly have high expectations for. The upshot of this is sodding Jive Bunny is on my iceberg.

33 Belinda Carlisle – Heaven is a place on earth +2 32 Enya – Orinoco Flow 30 The Bangles – Eternal Flame 29 Kylie Minogue – Hand on your heart 29 Madonna – Like a prayer 27 Soul II Soul ft. Caron Wheeler – Back to life (However do you want me) 24 Black Box – Ride on Time 23 Simple Minds – Belfast Child (Ballad of the streets EP) 23 S-Express – Theme from S-Express 22 Phil Collins – A groovy kind of love 22 Tiffany – I think we´re alone now 22 Lisa Stansfield – All around the world 22 Marc Almond and Gene Pitney - Something's Gotten Hold of my Heart +1 22 Pet Shop Boys – Heart +1 21 Aswad – Don´t turn around 20 Kylie Minogue – I should be so lucky 20 Bros – I owe you nothing 20 Glenn Medeiros – Nothing´s gonna change my love for you 20 Jason Donovan – Too many broken hearts 20 Jason Donovan – Sealed with a kiss 20 Sonia – You´ll never stop me from loving you 19 Yazz & the Plastic Population – The only way is up 19 Gerry Marsden, Paul McCartney, Holly Johnson & the Christians – Ferry `cross the Mersey 18 Robin Beck – First Time 17 Wet Wet Wet – With a little help from my friends / Billy Bragg – She´s leaving home 17 Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan – Especially for you 16 U2 – Desire 16 New Kids on the Block – You´ve got it (The right stuff) 15 Cliff Richard – Mistletoe and wine 10 Whitney Houston – One moment in time 8 - Fairground Attraction - Perfect 2 Time Lords – Doctorin’ the Tardis -4 0 Band Aid II – Do they know it´s Christmas? -2

26 Madonna — Like a prayer 26 Belinda Carlisle – Heaven is a place on earth +4 25 Simple Minds – Belfast Child (Ballad of the streets EP) 25 Soul II Soul ft. Caron Wheeler – Back to life (However do you want me) 24 Black Box – Ride on Time 24 Kylie Minogue – Hand on your heart 24 Time Lords – Doctorin´ the Tardis 23 Gerry Marsden, Paul McCartney, Holly Johnson & the Christians – Ferry ´cross the Mersey 23 S-Express – Theme from S-Express 22 U2 – Desire 21 Yazz & the Plastic Population – The only way is up 20 Tiffany – I think we´re alone now 20 Kylie Minogue – I should be so lucky 20 Asward – Don´t turn around 20 Fairground Attraction – Perfect 20 Wet Wet Wet – With a little help from my friends / Billy Bragg – She´s leaving home 20 Bros – I owe you nothing 20 Glenn Medeiros – Nothing´s gonna change my love for you 20 Phil Collins – A groovy kind of love 20 Whitney Houston – One moment in time 20 Enya – Orinoco Flow 20 Robin Beck – First Time 20 Jason Donovan – Too many broken hearts 20 The Bangles – Eternal Flame 20 Jason Donovan – Sealed with a kiss 20 Sonia – You´ll never stop me from loving you 20 Lisa Stansfield – All around the world 18 Hollies – He aint`t heavy, he`s my brother 17 Kylie Minogue & Jason Donovan – Especially for you 17 New Kids on the Block – You´ve got it (The right stuff) 17 Cliff Richard – Mistletoe and wine 15 Band Aid II – Do they know it´s Christmas? 14 Pet Shop Boys – Heart 12 Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers – Swing the Mood -3 12 Jive Bunny & the Mastermixers – That´s what I like -3 9 Marc Almond & Gene Pitney – Something`s gotten hold of my heart

DDP miss. Last picked 2022.

66 A-ha – The Sun Always Shines on TV +2 41 The Communards & Sarah Jane Morris – Don’t Leave Me This Way 41 Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin +2 39 Bee Gees – You Win Again 36 Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls 1 Rick Astley – Never Gonna Give You Up -6

I got a PM from IIRC Clorox yonks ago with dead celebs who needed updating, and I updated all the ones on his list. Though there's still a few stray ones like Macklin that slipped through the cracks is all.

60 a-ha – The Sun Always Shines on TV 43 The Communards & Sarah Jane Morris – Don’t Leave Me This Way 34 Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin 34 Pet Shop Boys – West End Girls 30 Bee Gees - You Win Again +4 26 Rick Astley — Never Gonna Give You Up 23 Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves me) 0 Falco –  On December 5th of that same year, Mozart dies -3 0 Madonna – La Isla Finita -3

Sandy Gall

That would be Zsa Zsa's leg. Well done. Thread closed.

60 a-ha – The Sun Always Shines on TV 40 Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin 39 The Communards & Sarah Jane Morris – Don’t Leave Me This Way 34 Pet Shop Boys — West End Girls 28 Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) -6 28 Bee Gees — You Win Again +4 24 Rick Astley — Never Gonna Give You Up 24 Madonna — La Isla Bonita 10 Falco – Rock Me Amadeus 7 George Michael & Aretha Franklin – I Knew You Were Waiting For Me

Approved for posterity just to confirm his fate has been sealed.

59 A-ha – The Sun Always Shines on TV 47 The Communards & Sarah Jane Morris – Don’t Leave Me This Way 45 Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin +4 31 Madonna — La Isla Bonita 29 Falco – Rock Me Amadeus 25 Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) -6 23 Bee Gees - You Win Again 23 Pet Shop Boys — West End Girls 22 George Michael & Aretha Franklin – I Knew You Were Waiting For Me 20 Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up 9 Starship — Nothing`s Gonna Stop Us Now 9 Madonna – Papa Don’t Preach

56 a-ha – The Sun Always Shines On TV 46 Communards & Sarah Jane Morris – Don’t Leave Me This Way 46 Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin +4 30 Madonna – La Isla Bonita 28 Rick Astley — Never Gonna Give You Up 27 Bee Gees - You Win Again 26 Starship – Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now 26 Falco – Rock Me Amadeus 23 Whitney Houston – I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) -4 21 Pet Shop Boys — West End Girls 21 George Michael & Aretha Franklin – I Knew You Were Waiting For Me 17 Mel & Kim — Respectable 12 Madonna – Papa Don’t Preach 11 T’Pau – China In Your Hand -2 8 Berlin - Take My Breath Away

There is a Brian Wilson one I suppose other Beach Boys could be mentioned in:

57 A-ha – The Sun Always Shines On TV 44 Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin +2 38 Communards & Sarah Jane Morris – Don’t Leave Me This Way +2 34 Madonna – La Isla Bonita 27 Starship – Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now 27 Rick Astley — Never Gonna Give You Up 26 Whitney Houston – I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) -6 26 Bee Gees - You Win Again 24 Pet Shop Boys — West End Girls 23 Mel & Kim – Respectable 21 Berlin – Take My Breath Away 21 George Michael & Aretha Franklin – I Knew You Were Waiting For Me 21 T’Pau – China In Your Hand 18 Madonna – Papa Don’t Preach 17 Falco – Rock Me Amadeus 09 Wham – Edge of Heaven 06 Los Lobos - La Bamba 05 George Michael – A Different Corner 04 Jackie Wilson – Reet Petite

57 A-ha – The Sun Always Shines On TV +2 46 Pet Shop Boys – It’s A Sin +2 36 Whitney Houston – I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me) -4 36 Communards & Sarah Jane Morris – Don’t Leave Me This Way 33 Rick Astley — Never Gonna Give You Up 28 Madonna — La Isla Bonita 26 Falco – Rock Me Amadeus 25 Mel & Kim – Respectable 25 Pet Shop Boys — West End Girls 23 Starship – Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now 23 Bee Gees – You Win Again 22 Berlin – Take My Breath Away 21 George Michael & Aretha Franklin – I Knew You Were Waiting For Me 15 Wham – Edge of Heaven 15 Madonna – Papa Don’t Preach 13 T’Pau – China In Your Hand -2 12 George Michael – A Different Corner 12 Jackie Wilson – Reet Petite 12 Los Lobos – La Bamba 6 Diana Ross – Chain Reaction 6 Ben E. King – Stand By Me 4 MARRS - Pump Up the Volume

Nigel Starmer Smith

53 a - ha – The sun always shines on TV +1 44 Pet Shop Boys – It´s a sin +2 37 Rick Astley — Never gonna give you up 36 Whitney Houston – I wanna dance with somebody (who loves me) 36 Falco – Rock me Amadeus 32 Communards & Sarah Jane Morris – Don´t leave me this way 27 M/A/R/R/S - Pump up the volume +1 26 Madonna – La isla bonita 25 Bee Gees - You Win Again 23 Pet Shop Boys — West End Girls 23 Starship – Nothing´s gonna stop u s now 22 Berlin – Take my breath away 21 George Michael & A retha Franklin – I knew you wait’n (fo me) 21 Jackie Wilson – Reet Petite 21 Mel & Kim – Respectable 19 Madonna – Papa don´t preach 14 T´Pau – China in your hand -2 14 Ben E. King – Stand by me 14 George Michael – A different corner 13 Wham - the edge of heaven 10 Los Lobos - La Bamba 7 Diana Ross – Chain Reaction 2 Madonna – True Blue -4

I dreamed that we were in November and the DeathList was still on 0/50, and there were likewise no real celebrity/deadpool-relavant deaths of note in that timeframe. Muazzez Ilmiye Cig's November death was the first in ages to even impact a deadpool, and the DL was so desperate at being 0/50 for so long that they edited Steve "Mongo" McMichael onto the list, only for him not to die as well. I don't even want to envision the forum if we ever had a drought even remotely close to that!

DDP pick thanks to the Christmas theme team.

Getting the update out of the way now. First off, Elena Huelva. Sigh. She was Banana's second sub and has a base 50 points. But also rejected from the DDP as her social media following, though large, predicated on being ill. Thus I am applying a penalty of 30 points so the gain is only 20. Up next was tennis star Dick Savitt whose death sees Torva Messor serve the little yellow ball onto the HPDP court and score her first points of the season. She gains 28 points (20 base + 8 bonus). Savitt was overshadowed by another demise that day, however. Italy football great Gianluca Vialli was the second-most-popular pick of the entire pool. The part of the Pele/Benny squad of "please make 2023" who actually made it, he naturally was placed high on most teams. An Fear Beag, Banana, CaptainChorizo, chilean way, diego, Famous6Eva, gcreptile, JoeMoneypenny, LizLemon, MariNisia, maryportfuncity, nantonian2013, Perhaps, Sean, Thatcher, TheDumbReaper, ThereWillBeDeaths7, wannamaker all get 50 points. DeathBecomesThem, drol, Funeralopolis, Hell, justonecornetto, msc, RadGuy, The Unknown Man 45. Toast 40. Book, BuffaloPhil, Clarence, Pedro67, and theoldlady 35. The Old Crem 30. BabyBlue and Charles de Gaulle a first sub hit for 25. Back to the low-key unique with US journalist Bernard Kalb. A unique for John "요한" Sulu who made 100 but didn't make 101, Sulu beams up 56 points (40 base + 16 bonus). King Constantine II was moderately popular with 5 teams picking him though a bit of a Greece-y spoon as most of them were banking on him as a later-year death. wannamaker gains 15 points, Young One 10, Murdoc 5, and diego and Etushispushingupdaisies both get their first sub points for 25. Natalie Fornasier. Another sigh. Again, she was rejected for DDP so instant penalty. Banana had her as a unique so the pre-penalty total is 56 (40 base + 16 bonus) but I will be subtracting 36 points from that so he only gains 20 points. A little more famous is Italian screen diva Gina Lollobrigida. Surprisingly not picked on any previous HPDPs under my watch, the lucky timing for BabyBlue benefits them by 35 points (25 base + 10 bonus). IIRC Kane Tanaka was a unique hit last year. Double checking, yes, she was. History repeats itself with the WOP unique once more. BuffaloPhil cloistered alone in picking 118-year-old French nun Lucile Randon, and is rewarded with 49 points (35 base + 14 bonus). Spanish economist Juan Velarde Fuertes is now Juan Velarde Muertes. No doubt we will look back on 2023 as the year this towering figure died. At any rate one individual who was invested in this guy was WEP, whose eclectic mix is on the board with 49 points (35 base + 14 bonus). And thus here is the second scoreboard, with all but nine teams all off the mark now. Defending champion Banana sees himself perched atop once again, however the FFBI penalties keep it close while we're still in the early days. 1. Banana 115 2. justonecornetto 90.95 3. msc 86.77 4. BuffaloPhil 84.95 5. drol 81.77 6. diego 75.82 7. RadGuy 67.7 8. wannamaker 65.95 9. BabyBlue 60.95 10. John "요한" Sulu 56 11. LizLemon 52.7 12. nantonian2013 51.27 =13. An Fear Beag 50.95 =13. gcreptile 50.95 =13. Perhaps 50.95 =13. TheDumbReaper 50.95 =17. chilean way 50.82 =17. Sean 50.82 =17. ThereWillBeDeaths7 50.82 =20. Book 50 =20. CaptainChorizo 50 =20. Famous6Eva 50 =20. JoeMoneypenny 50 =20. MariNisia 50 =20. maryportfuncity 50 =20. Thatcher 50 27. WEP 49 28. DeathBecomesThem 46.77 29. Funeralopolis 45.95 30. The Unknown Man 45.82 31. Hell 45 32. Toast 40.95 33. Clarence 36.77 =34. Pedro67 35 =34. theoldlady 35 36. The Old Crem 30.95 37. Torva Messor 28 38. Charles De Gaulle 26.77 39. Etushispushingupdaisies 26.4 40. Young One 10 41. Murdoc 5.82 =42. Great Uncle Bulgaria 1.77 =42. YorkshireBanker 1.77 =44. John Key 0.95 =44. markb4 0.95 =46. CalebH 0.82 =46. GuyFromFuture 0.82 =46. Joey Russ 0.82 =49. arghton 0 =49. Death Impends 0 =49. DeathByArsenic 0 =49. DevonDeathTrip 0 =49. Gooseberry Crumble 0 =49. Lord Fellatio Nelson 0 =49. TheKillingTime 0 =49. time 0 =49. YoungWillz 0

Should have an update over the next few days. Believe the hits since the last update are Elena Huelva, Dick Savitt, Gianluca Vialli, Bernard Kalb, King Constantine, Natalie Fornasier, Gina Lollobrigida, Lucile Randon, and I just saw that Spanish economist Juan Velarde Fuertes died and got an El Pais obit.